John Jones News July 19, 1999

July 19,1999

Stuart Bliss

My Times

This weeks Song of the Week is Lose You.
It's an Akai 12 track Pop song from the early 90's.
Most of the sounds are from an S1000 except the guitars. The sequencer was Notator on an Atari 1040 ST.
It's a simple ditty about being caught in a love triangle.

Stuart Bliss opened in Toronto last week at the Carlton Cineplex Odeon.
Here is a review from the Toronto Sun.

I'm still mixing Emilys' album as well as having started a new song with Davinci and sorting through the Lost Tapes of Mick Fleetwood...
It's been a very hectic 2 weeks that also included a couple of afternoons with the super talented Dayna Manning.

Quite a few years ago I worked in Iceland with Ny Donsk. The lead singer Daniel is now in Gus Gus.

I wish I knew where all the bootleg CD's were coming from with questionable Duran Duran demo's and rehearsal recordings.
A lot of what I have heard does not gel with what I remember.
For the diehard fan, a Duran site with links to samples of the bootlegs is Plastic Girl.

Further to my preoccupation with Kosovo are these two articles by Robert Fisk that I missed from the London Independent, courtesy of Zmag.
It continues along the theme of NATO and media propoganda...

" By now, the annual congressional renewal of China's benefits is almost as much a rite of summer as the All-Star Game. Why pretend it is in doubt? Because this charade ultimately serves many interests. Members of Congress derive campaign contributions--and lobbyists, consultants and trade associations make money--by convincing American businesses that if they don't fork over huge sums, U.S. firms soon may lose forever the right to trade with China. And news organizations get to purvey a false atmosphere of suspense by suggesting conflict or impending doom. ."
Deny MFN to China? A Most Farcical Notion - Jim MannJuly 14,1999 LA Times